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doorbell dreams

fingers, long and

short, slender, stout

brown, prosthetic,

pressing or stroking,

eliciting a pneumatic answer,

tips tapping or striking

the cool round face,

and an aperture,

the dilation of it,

a slide, a swing,

one way or the other,

even prised open footwise,

bell circumvented,

ignored, might as well

climb in the window

if you won’t ring the bell.